Best Restaurant for Kids Phoenix 2009 - Pita Jungle

Typically speaking, if you don't see a kids' menu, you don't want to bring your kids. It's like a restaurant with no highchairs. Big hint. Not so at Pita Jungle, where kids are more than welcome, and there's plenty for them on the grownups' menu. It's actually a relief to not have the choice of chicken fingers and mac 'n' cheese — it's the only way we can get the kids to eat vegetables, and there's a wide variety of all kinds of healthful food on Pita Jungle's Mediterranean menu.

The best part, though, is the service. Every time we've taken the kids to Pita Jungle, the staff has been so friendly that we've had to practically wrest the children away — and not in a creepy way. What started as a storefront in Tempe has expanded into a mini-empire, but what we love is that we can come in a month later and the woman cleaning the tables still remembers our daughter's name.

In a country where 90% of all restaurants offer kids hamburgers, grilled cheese, hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and fries (pasta if your lucky), Pita Jungle serves up the best kids menu hands down. For the sake of our future we eat here weekly! Keep it up Pita Jungle.